Museum Acquires Kelly Fearing Papers

One of the great pleasures of being an archivist at an art museum is getting the chance to deal with manuscript materials. It is archival collections that contain the letters, diaries, scrapbooks, etc. that document an artist's life and work. It allows a researcher first-hand access to the artist. So, with great excitement, we recently had the opportunity to acquire, through the generosity of Charles Smith, the archive of Kelly Fearing.

Fearing was part of the Fort Worth Circle of Artists, primarily active in the 1940s and 1950s, who brought modernist ideas and techniques to the Fort Worth area. The Fearing archive has manuscript material spanning his Fort Worth period on into his later distinguished artistic and educational career at the University of Texas at Austin. The archive, once organized, will allow researchers to delve into Fearing's art, associations, and the milieu he worked in. It joins other private papers and records at the Amon Carter, including Fort Worth Circle artists Bror Utter, Marjorie Johnson Lee, Flora and Dickson Reeder, and Blanche McVeigh.

Photo Above: Unprocessed Kelly Fearing Papers

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